Quotes about Perspective
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
— Henry Ward Beecher
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
— John Donne
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
— Laurence Sterne
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
— St. Augustine
No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
— Epictetus
Prosperity knits a man to the world.
— CS Lewis
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
— Dale Carnegie
You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
— G Campbell Morgan
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
— GK Chesterton
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
— Henry Ward Beecher